Information from the public safety column comes from the records of the Lake Oswego Police Department. Police recently filed reports on the following incidents:

BURGLARIES

12/23/11 2:07 p.m. The garage of a house on Kelok Road was burglarized overnight. Items stolen from an unlocked car were a wallet and airplane keys.

ACCIDENTS

12/23/11 1:03 p.m. A car on Kelok Road was entered through an unlocked door. The glovebox was rummaged through and a flashlight and car keys were taken.

12/26/11 8:37 a.m. While a woman was watching a basketball game at Waluga Junior High School, a driver smashed into her car in the parking lot and caused $600 in damage.

THEFT

12/23/11 9:25 a.m. A cell phone stolen in San Francisco on Nov. 18 has since accrued $1,000 in charges.

12/24/11 Noon. Two vehicles on Maple Circle were broken into. Items stolen were sunglasses, Garmin GPS and a telephone system.

12/25/11 2:53 p.m. Four 'No Pooping' signs valued at $100 were stolen from a yard on Duncan Drive.

MISC.

12/20/11 9:38 a.m. Three chickens are wandering around Cobb Way but nobody could locate their home.

12/20/11 4:27 p.m. A full tank of gas was sucked out of a Ford Ranger parked on Boones Way.

12/20/11 8:41 p.m. A father pushed his daughter out of the door because she complained about doing chores.

12/21/11 11:25 a.m. A woman was jumped by three dogs walking unleashed at West Waluga Park.

12/21/11 12:30 p.m. A driver wearing a beanie was driving like a mad man and honking his horn on Boones Ferry Road.

12/21/11 12:57 p.m. A mother is requesting that police speak to her 15-year-old pothead son.

12/21/11 6:32 p.m. An ex-husband is threatening to assault his ex-wife when she picks up her sons.

12/22/11 8:03 a.m. Transients seem to be sleeping in the restrooms at Foothills Park. One restroom had broken glass and cardboard on the floor, and a fixture on a toilet seemed to have been pried open with glass.

12/22/11/8:10 a.m. A coyote with a bone in its mouth was a disconcerting sight to a woman on South Shore Boulevard.

12/22/11 8:11 a.m. Numerous signs and a barstool were placed in a yard overnight. Some of the signs were returned to Westside Christian High School.

12/22/11 11:15 a.m. A 2-year-old child was found locked in a car. However, just before Pop-A-Lock arrived, the child managed to unlock the doors.

12/22/11 12:02 p.m. There is a continual problem with cars speeding at the intersection of Cornell and Spruce streets.

12/22/11 12:39 p.m. Two subjects were seen dragging steel from the railroad tracks through a hole in a fence and putting it in a white Ford pickup.

12/22/11 12:56 p.m. A solicitor selling windows on Overlook Drive pulled out a device to subdue dogs and then used it on the object of his salesmanship. The device was a squeaky toy appliance on his Smart phone.

12/22/11 1:54 p.m. A woman was seeking to trap someone who is constantly making 866 calls to her.

12/23/11 5:07 p.m. Squabbling between business tenants on Jean and Pilkington roads has resulted extra patrols being requested.

12/23/11 10:31 a.m. When a man found his dog dead in his yard on Koawood Drive, he thought it may have been killed by a wild animal.

12/24/11 12:45 p.m. Despite being found screaming in the middle of the street on North Shore Road by both a passerby and a police officer, a woman refused any help while walking on her badly injured foot.

12/24/11 5:10 p.m. An attempt to use an ATM machine on Bryant Road went awry when the machine seized a woman's card and gave back only half of the cash she requested.

12/25/11 6:43 p.m. Kids hiding in brush were throwing apples at vehicles on Carman Drive and Kruse Way.

12/26/11 12:54 a.m. There is an ongoing problem with a loud neighbor at an apartment on 1st Street. It is believed the neighbor may have a police scanner.

12/26/11 4:13 p.m. Two windows of a car were partially shot out by a BB gun or .22 on Walking Woods Drive.

FRAUD

12/21/11 9:23 a.m. $850 was transferred electronically from a victim's Wells Fargo account to an unknown PayPal account.

12/26/11 8:07 a.m. A debit card was stolen in Wilsonville and used at the Lake Grove Chevron.